University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine
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The University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Medicine began in 1971. The school offers an accelerated program based on a six-year curriculum. The school of medicine admits students into the program directly from high school and within six years the graduates attain an undergraduate and a doctor of medicine degree (BA/MD) from UMKC. The curriculum integrates the liberal arts, and basic and clinic sciences within a team approach to learning. More than 2000 physicians have graduated from the UMKC–SOM six year combined degree program.
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[edit] Location
The school of medicine is located in the Hospital Hill neighborhood of downtown Kansas City, USA, and is physically attached to the Truman Medical Center hospital complex (the primary teaching hospital).
[edit] The Docent Experience at UMKC
One of the most distinctive aspects of the UMKC School of Medicine is their Docent Experience. In the Docent Experience, the students are divided into groups of about 12 students and are then assigned to a medical physician who is then their "docent doctor", later referred to as the unit. The hospital outpatient setting is organized by a color association which corresponds to each docent unit. In the first two years of the docent experience, the students are assigned a docent for internal medicine in year one, and pediatrics/OB-Gyn and other primary care fields for the second year of undergraduate training. A psychiatric docent is also assigned year two. Also somewhat unique to UMKC is non-physician exposure. Students also rotate through a two week observational/hands-on course referred to as "hospital team." This experience may be in any field (primary care), but the objective is to follow nurses for two weeks to provide, in terms, a holistic, integrative, and necessary viewpoint of the non-physician impact on medicine. After this is completed year two's also begin a course in geriatrics, where an elderly mentor is assigned to a small group in a retirment village to better bridge the gap between young practicing physicans and those receiving the majority of care. When students have completed coursework in many of the status quo medical school pre-requisites, students "Promote to the Hill," an analogy for Hospital Hill, the location of Truman Medical Center and Children's Mercy, two of the backbone institutions for which many students rotate. At this point, students receive their own offices and become a more permanent part of the outpatient clinic. At this point, students have a large interaction with a small group of patients to provide continuity care exposure. UMKC also independently runs and finances a free outpatient clinic on Sunday's which also provides a family medicine as well as psychosocial implementation that is necessary for a practicing physician. Year four, after successful completion of USMLE Step 1, students begin core rotoations and electives. As of 2007-8, the current requirements are 2 months in Pediatrics, Surgery, and OB/Gyn, followed by 1 month in Pscyhiatry, Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care (either Adult of Pediatric), Preceptor (rural experience), and electives pertient to chosen field of study (which may include out of town, out of country options). While on these required/elective rotations, student maintain their continuity clinic obligations, exused only while on vacation or out of town rotations. This maximizes clinical exposure. Many students agree that it is a great way to integrate their classroom learning in the hospital setting.
The school of medicine also offers 15 specialty residency programs and 20 subspecialties.
[edit] Associated hospitals
- Truman Medical Center-Hospital Hill
- Truman Medical Center-Lakewood
- Children's Mercy Hospital
- Western Missouri Mental Health Center
- Saint Luke's Hospital
- Saint Luke's Northland
- Baptist-Luthern Medical Center
- Menorah Medical Center
- Research Medical Center
- Trinity-Lutheran Hospital
- Overland Park Regional Medical Center
- Providence Medical Center
- Shawnee Mission Medical Center
